In 1905 Asta and her family come to east London. With her husband away on business, Asta keeps loneliness at bay by writing a diary. Over 70 years later these diaries are published and Asta's granddaughter unearths their buried secrets.

The Chimney Sweeper's Boy - a classic crime novel by bestselling, prize-winning author Barbara Vine 'Gripping, almost impossible to put down' Guardian 'One of the most frightening novels I have ever read ... Gerald Candless, the monster at the heart of the maze, is a marvellous creation' Amanda Craig, Express on Sunday When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at all. But then, who was he? And...

Jarvis lives in a crumbling schoolhouse over looking the tube line, compiling his obsessive history of the Underground. Other misfits are also drawn towards his house, Alice and Tom and Axel, whose deadly secret casts a shadow over all their lives.

In the long hot summer of 1976 a group of young people are camping in Wyvis Hall. They hardly ask why they are there or how they are to live. Ten years later the bodies of a woman and child are discovered in the Hall's animal cemetery.

'A rich, complex and beautifully crafted novel' P.D. James The prize-winning classic that 'changed the thriller landscape', with a new foreword from Val McDermid. VERA HILLYARD. AUNT. MOTHER. MURDERESS. Faith Severn's life has long been overshadowed by the mystery surrounding her aunt. A respectable woman who committed a crime so terrible she was hung for it. Now, the time has come to piece her story together. What secret caused two devoted sisters to turn from love to hate? And was Vera born a killer. . .Or was she driven to it? 'Brilliantly plotted. Vine is not afraid to walk down the mean...